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Detainees are made to stand against a bus before being handcuffed during a raid by federal agents at Hyundai and LG Energy Solution's electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant in Ellabell, Georgia, on Sept. 4, 2025.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 16, 2026
South Korean workers challenging U.S. government over Georgia raid
The more than 300 South Korean workers were detained in an immigration raid last year at a Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant.
BYD is betting that its Racco minicar will help it break into the Japanese market.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 20, 2026
BYD tries where others failed with tiny EV designed for Japan
The world’s largest maker of electric vehicles says its recently unveiled Racco has attracted more than 1,000 orders in the first few weeks.
The energy crisis caused by the war in Iran is strengthening the case for electric vehicles for some consumers. Chinese carmakers are expected to be the big winners.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 26, 2026
The oil shock is accelerating Asia’s EV revolution
EVs have already hit solid double-digit market shares in multiple emerging markets, as falling battery costs and tax incentives helped undercut conventional cars.
The HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Ulsan Shipyard
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Feb 12, 2026
Koreans are shunning dangerous shipbuilding jobs envied by Trump
Shipbuilding is among South Korea’s most dangerous industries, killing dozens of people each year, prompting more Korean workers to avoid those jobs.
Royal Canadian Navy submarine HMCS Victoria sails in the vicinity of Esquimalt Harbor in Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada in 2021.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 26, 2026
South Korean delegation heads to Canada to lobby for submarine project
Seoul is competing ?against Germany’s TKMS in a race to win the Canadian project for a new fleet ?of up ?to 12 diesel-powered submarines.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung meets with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump in Geyongju, South Korea, on Oct. 29. The two leaders finalized a trade deal that lowered tariffs on South Korean car imports and investment in the United States.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 23, 2025
The long road to a South Korea-U.S. trade deal
In regard to Japan, another key ally, Lee has signaled a flexible stance and continued bilateral cooperation.
A protester displays a poster featuring U.S. President Donald Trump at Incheon Airport on Sept. 12 after South Korean workers detained in a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia returned home.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 9, 2025
South Korea should turn the U.S. ICE raid into trade leverage
U.S. officials sought to justify the operation by saying the 300 South Koreans arrested were working illegally. But that logic now appears to be on shaky ground.
An activist holds a banner as South Korean workers who were detained in a huge immigration raid in the U.S. arrive at the Incheon International Airport in South Korea on Sept.12.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 24, 2025
‘America is not a safe place to work’: South Koreans describe Georgia raid
Some of the workers arrested this month at a Hyundai-LG factory said that although they had entered the U.S. under murky circumstances, they always planned to return home.
Jose Munoz, president and CEO of Hyundai Motor
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 12, 2025
Hyundai battery plant faces startup delay after U.S. raid, CEO says
The plant, part of a $7.6 billion factory complex to make battery-powered models, was slated to come online later this year.
A chartered plane transporting South Korean workers who were detained in an immigration raid last week arrives at the Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 12, 2025
South Korean workers arrive home after U.S. detention
South Koreans made up the majority of the 475 people arrested at a Hyundai-LG battery factory site in the state of Georgia last week.
Detainees at a joint facility of Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution stand against a bus during a raid by federal agents in Ellabell, Georgia, last week.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 11, 2025
LG’s other U.S. sites see exodus of South Korean workers after raid: sources
Visa concerns following last week’s immigration raid on LG Energy Solution’s joint facility with Hyundai Motor have led South Korean workers to head home.
Detainees are made to stand against a bus during a raid by federal agents on a Hyundai facility in Ellabell, Georgia, last week.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 11, 2025
Many arrested at Hyundai’s U.S. facility appear to be working legally: lawyer
“They just arrested everyone who wasn’t a citizen or a resident and figured they would sort it out later,” said a lawyer representing more than a dozen workers.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents execute an enforcement operation at a Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant in Ellabell, Georgia on Sept. 4.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 10, 2025
The ICE raid on the Georgia Hyundai plant makes no sense
The raid antagonized U.S. ally South Korea, a country that had signed a $350 billion trade pact with U.S. President Donald Trump just weeks earlier.
Investigators from the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations at a factory being built by South Korea's Hyundai Motor in Georgia on Friday
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2025
Three Japanese nationals among those detained by ICE at Hyundai plant in Georgia
The Japanese nationals are employees of a Japanese industrial machinery manufacturer who were dispatched to the electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia.
Activists holding signs that reads "No one is illegal!" protest against a huge immigration raid last week in the U.S. state of Georgia, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Sep 9, 2025
Workers say corporate South Korea was warned about questionable U.S. visas before Hyundai raid
For years, South Korean companies have said they struggle to obtain short-term work visas for specialists needed in their high-tech plants in the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at the Oval Office, at the White House, in Washington on Aug. 25.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 9, 2025
Shackled workers threaten to unravel South Korea’s wins with Trump
The incident spotlights billions in U.S. investment plan and carefully crafted diplomacy that helped Seoul land one of the world’s best tariff deals.
A Homeland Security Investigations police officer watches over workers during a federal search warrant at a company in Ellabell, Georgia, on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 8, 2025
U.S. migrant raid jolts South Korea and stirs investor anxiety
The raid came shortly after a White House summit between the presidents of both countries where Korean companies pledged to up U.S. investments.
U.S. Homeland Security Investigations police officers execute a federal search warrant at a Hyundai Motor factory in Ellabell, Georgia, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 7, 2025
Seoul says over 300 South Koreans detained in U.S. to be released
The announcement follows the arrest of more than 300 South Korean workers at a Hyundai-LG battery plant being built in the southern state of Georgia on Thursday.
U.S. Homeland Security Investigations police officers execute a federal search warrant at a Hyundai Motor factory in Ellabell, Georgia, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 7, 2025
Immigration raid on Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia rattles South Korea
The raid came at a sensitive time ?in trade relations?, unsettling South Korean businesses investing in the United States.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung meets with U.S. President Donald Trump meets at the White House in Washington on Aug. 25.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 6, 2025
South Korean president vows support to citizens arrested in U.S. immigration raid
Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said the government has set up a team to respond to Thursday’s arrest of over 300 South Koreans at the facility in the southern state of Georgia.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
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